CAIR-Michigan

The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says its “mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding through education, mediation, media and the law.”[1]

CAIR-MI executive director Dawud Walid celebrated the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory in the Egyptian presidential election of 2012. He said, “Get ready for regional and Western forces’ plans to undermine President-elect Morsi. We’ve seen this playbook before.” He added, “While you’re so concerned about how Morsi will govern in Egypt, you are loosing [sic] your democratic rights in America.”[2]

Walid portrays Israel as the aggressor in its conflict with Hamas. He is dismissive of Hamas’s “cheap, homemade, makeshift, rockets.”[3]

He also demonizes the U.S. government. The Investigative Project on Terrorism summarizes, “In response to FBI raids, arrests and prosecutions, Walid has repeatedly responded with virulent comments alleging FBI misconduct.”[4]

In 2009, Walid said that the FBI infiltrates mosques with the objective of “basically cultivating and inciting people towards extremism.” He asserted, “the FBI is basically manufacturing their own terrorism suspects to give the appearance that they’re actually doing something tangible in the so-called ‘War on Terrorism.'”[5]

Walid has questioned whether Muslims should honor fallen U.S. soldiers who die in wars they disagree with. In 2014, Walid was quoted by another CAIR official as saying, “If one dies in an unjust war in which we illegally invaded and occupied a sovereign nation, should that person be honored?”[6]

Around Independence Day 2014, Walid wrote several anti-American tweets and says he is “not getting excited” about the holiday because the U.S. “has yet to atone for slavery & ethnic cleansing.”[7]

For too long has Pakistan provided safe haven to the Taliban and many terrorist organisations, but those days are over.

- Mike Pence Vice President, United States of America

To say that Islam and Islamism have nothing to do with it is to deny any responsibility to act to our fellow Muslims. We must help them, we must help them to fight within themselves these totalitarian ideologies of Salafism or the Muslim Brotherhood.

- Manuel Valls Former French prime minister

We are going to maintain our commitment on the ground [in Syria] as long as we need to, to support our partners and prevent the return of terrorist groups.

- Eric Pahon Pentagon spokesman

Those that adhere to this ideology are really irreligious criminals who use a perverted, what the president has called a ‘wicked’ interpretation of religion in an effort to recruit young, impressionable people to their cause.

- H.R. McMaster National Security Adviser

Female circumcision has nothing to do with frigidity but that doesn't mean I defend female circumcision. It's a crime in the full sense of the word, but it doesn't cause frigidity at all.

- Heba Kotb Certified Egyptian sex therapist & TV show host

Indonesian women who seek to serve their country by joining the security forces shouldn’t have to subject themselves to an abusive and discriminatory ‘virginity test’ to do so.

- Nisha Varia Indonesian women’s rights advocacy director

Recognizing that religion can be a primary motivator for terrorism need not lead to the unwarranted condemnation of Islam.

- Dr. Lorne Dawson Director of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society

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